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Answer» Open Office 3.2.1 ISO images are available. Free, of course. CD-ROM ISO ImagesYou also need a current JRE package for your OS. http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp Do you agree that Open Office is as good as the MS product for general use?What's the point of getting an ISO image for Open Office? Why not just download the .exe file? Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 17, 2010, 10:44:33 PM Do you agree that Open Office is as good as the MS product for general use?Maybe. What, exactly, is "general use"? It really depends on the user's needs. But, yes, it is probably quite adequate for many users. However, if you're implying that Open Office is absolutely as good as the MS product, I do not agree. If you go into the office environment the vast majority of businesses (let's say any business with annual sales exceeding $5 million), what Office package do you think you'll see on their computers? If you truly don't know the answer to that, I can tell it is MS Office. Since business seeks to minimize costs and maximize profits, they'd be using Open Office if it truly served their needs as well as MS Office. Also, many companies employ VBA to create entire applications within Word, Excel, or Access, depending on what functions the "application" needs. I have to agree with Soybean. There's just no need as far as I can see for ISO images. Unless I'm MISSING something.. Quote from: RubiK on July 20, 2010, 06:02:19 AM I have to agree with Soybean. There's just no need as far as I can see for ISO images.In a community college it would make a lot of sense. The ISO has extra stuff, like documentation. Give each student a CD and let them INSTALL it. Of course, the naked installer is a quick download. BTW, from version 3 on Open Office has MS run time stuff built into it. Like VBA and some things of C++ run time. (Should I say RUM time?) Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 20, 2010, 10:41:30 AM BTW, from version 3 on Open Office has MS run time stuff built into it. Like VBA It doens't have VBA, it has a VBA knockoff, OpenOffice.Org Basic. It's not necessarily less useful then the VBA editor, but you certainly aren't going to be able to create entire projects with it like you can with VBA. IMO it's really more on par with WordBASIC or AccessBASIC.Your opion is important. Word Basic is still alive and can be a surrogate for VBA. WordBasic Lives! By Dan Mabbutt, About.com Guide to Visual Basic So by making a comparison to Word Basic, your are saying it has some value for a segment of the general users. Right? Considering that it is free, it is of value to those who must serve a number of workstations on a limited budget. Flor example, schools in the inner cities. Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 21, 2010, 10:59:56 AM Word Basic is still alive and can be a surrogate for VBA. It's not "alive". and VBA acts as a surrogate for it. it's no longer a separate language as it was in Word versions prior to 97, but rather a Object that you access via VBA. Second: the quoted source author is clearly biased, making constant references to VB6: Quote That turkey was obsolete in 1997 when it was replaced by VBA. (Which, in turn, is the last little sniglet of VB6 Microsoft has left hanging around.) Quote So, the question occurs to me, "Why is Microsoft so kind and understanding to their Office macro languages users when they throw VB6 programmers out in the cold to freeze and starve?" I'm not going to get into the .NET argument because my OPINION is a rather ambivalent one depending on perspective, but clearly he must understand that languages are developed and die. How many programmers used to use Pascal on a daily basis? How many do now? that type of thing. some of those programmers essentially retired, but the rest adapted and actually learned another language. WordBASIC is not supported at all by any version of Word after word 97. Word 2000 and up will open a Word DOCUMENT that contains wordbasic macros, but they are converted to VBA macros that reference the WordBASIC object. Go ahead. try it. can you create a macro in Word 2007 that simply states Code: [Select]Bold 1 to bold a character? No? then it's not wordBASIC. All that is left of wordBASIC are a few COMPATIBILITY objects that emulate the various functions. the various unique syntax is gone. Same with AccessBASIC. Quote So by making a comparison to Word Basic, your are saying it has some value for a segment of the general users. Right?Yes. I never stated otherwise. Quote Considering that it is free, it is of value to those who must serve a number of workstations on a limited budget. Flor example, schools in the inner cities.Not arguing with you there. My original point is that it is not like VBA, except in the way it is available in multiple applications. [/quote] Quote Of course, the naked installer is a quick download.Yeah, if you're living in the US that is. Quote from: kpac on July 21, 2010, 01:47:23 PM Yeah, if you're living in the US that is.Promise to keep your eyes closed. http://download.openoffice.org/index.html about 150 MBYeah, and? 150 mb takes about 5 hours for me to download (on a good day).The Open Office e Project does not distribute the product on CD . However, they allow others to distribute it on a CD with some restrictions. More information: http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ |
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